I've reached my goal, now what?

So, now that you've reached the summit, where to next? You've reached your goal, and although it brings a sense of satisfaction and fullfillment, you're left with a sense of loss. Some say that it's the journey that's important that the things we learn as we work our way towards achieving our goals that matters. Maybe that's one of the reasons why so many people who win large sums of money in a lottery or some other similar way find it hard to cope with their new status. Earning our rewards in which ever form they may come, perhaps is an important factor.
So when we have been motivated for years to achieve our goals, but now that we've reached them, then what is going to motivate us again? In the interim period of having reached one goal, and finding the next one, what happens? We go searching. We turn inward and try to discover what is important to us.
Perhaps we ask ourselves; "if I was not able to do ...............(insert here what's important to you),how would I feel?" Sometimes the thought of options that will no longer be available to us help us understand what really matters. A question commonly asked is: "if you had your life to live again, would you do somethings differently"?
If you answer yes then perhaps those things you would like to do differently, are worthy of some consideration?
Every new day is an opportunity for doing things differently no matter what we did yesterday, because today is a fresh new start full of new possibilities. Whatever happened yesterday we can not change, all we can ever really change is our attitude to the way we view things, actually, I think that that may be our one true freedom; the freedom to chose how we will respond. So, now when you've reached your summit, will you find another "mountain" to climb, or maybe you will find an ocean to sail, a desert to cross or a forrest to forge?
The intial stage of finding new goals may feel a bit like being on an ocean in a matchbox, but is it necessarily a bad experience? One aspect of humanity which I find very marvelous is mankinds ability to adapt, so while you're in a matchbox, maybe relax and allow for your inner self to reveal new possibilities? Maybe you will remember that once you wanted to be guitarist, a glass blower, a dressmaker, an author, a sports coach, a teacher, a lawyer, etc.etc. All possibilities entertained, nothing discarded as foolish or impossible. Nourishment comes not only as food for the body but also as food for the soul and mind, and I for one, believe we need both.